Find the Fit previously shifted application behavior, increasing applications to four or more colleges and to very competitive colleges¶
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q3 i? Students offered Find the Fit were about 10 percentage points more likely to apply to four or more colleges and to apply to at least one very competitive or higher college than regular advising students. → Linkow 2021
Evidence¶
Linkow 2021¶
Linkow, T., Parsad, A., Martinez, A., & Miller, H. (2021). Study of Enhanced College Advising in Upward Bound: Impacts on Where and How Long Students Attend College (NCEE 2021-2022-002r). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. http://ies.ed.gov/ncee
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The study's prior report (Martinez et al. 2018), summarized in Exhibit 5 with survey data from 1,920 Find the Fit and 1,710 regular advising students; the exhibit notes differences "statistically significant at the .05 level." No standardized effect size is printed.
"Students offered Find the Fit were about 10 percentage points more likely to apply to four or more colleges and apply to at least one college at the very competitive level or higher, compared to students in regular UB advising projects."
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Related Claims¶
- Find the Fit led about 3 percentage points more students to attend colleges that were at least very competitive immediately after high school — related
- Find the Fit's selectivity shift came with no higher out-of-pocket cost and no increase in dropping out or transferring down — related
- The selectivity impact of Find the Fit persisted through the third fall after high school graduation — related
- Find the Fit led to some changes in advising within Upward Bound and in students' actions related to enrolling in a more selective college — related
- Find the Fit increased the share of Upward Bound students who applied to four or more colleges — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Find the Fit led Upward Bound students to apply to more-selective colleges — related
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Find the Fit previously shifted application behavior, increasing applications to four or more colleges and to very competitive colleges |
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Find the Fit previously shifted application behavior, increasing applications to four or more colleges and to very competitive colleges |
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2021 |
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1 — linkow-2021 |
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